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Two New Male Birth Control Chemicals In Advanced Stages
BarbaraHudson writes Researchers at the University of Kansas and Harvard are working to give men more choices for avoiding unwanted pregnancies. From the article: "H2-gamendazole keeps sperm from maturing. The unfinished sperm fragments are then reabsorbed into the testis, never ending up in the semen. 'If there's no sperm, the egg's not going to get fertilized,' says Joseph Tash, a reproductive biologist at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Almost two years ago, the FDA reviewed the compound, and now the agency wants Tash to investigate if the compound remains in the semen and whether that would harm a woman if it ends up in the vagina. Jay Bradner, working with other anti-cancer researchers at Harvard, discovered that the JQ1 molecule blocked a bromodomain in cancer cells, causing them to forget how to be cancer. One side effect is that JQ1 also obstructed a testicle-specific bromodomain called BRDT, making the sex cells that would otherwise produce sperm non-functional — mice treated with JQ1 can hump with abandon yet generate zero mouselings. Researchers are looking for a version of the molecule that works on the testicle protein only, to avoid any weird side effects."
It would be awesome if this could be part of a men's liberation movement, like how women were liberated in the 60s when the pill became available. Not just contraception, a change in the way men look at themselves.
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This is a murder of potentially trillions of human beings and as such an obvious affront to god!
TFA: [...] discovered that the JQ1 molecule blocked a bromodomain in cancer cells, causing them to forget how to be cancer. [...] Researchers are looking for a version of the molecule that works on the testicle protein only, to avoid any weird side effects
Since when slowing down cancer is a "weird side effect"? :D
This could really help men everywhere, there are a ton of options for women but very few for men. I can only hope when the day comes that it's viewed as a positive direction from all rights groups. Doubtful, but one can dream.
"anti-cancer researchers at Harvard, discovered that the JQ1 molecule blocked a bromodomain in cancer cells, causing them to forget how to be cancer."
"Researchers are looking for a version of the molecule that works on the testicle protein only, to avoid any weird side effects."
Umm... can I please have the side-effects, if the side effects are, you know, NOT GETTING CANCER?
Birth control is a womens issue.
You won't get a judge to agree with you if you accidentally father a child.
I won't be putting any unknown chemicals into my body for HER sake.
And yet you want her to put chemicals into her body for YOUR fun and enjoyment. Nice troll :-(
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Birth control is a womens issue.
You won't get a judge to agree with you if you accidentally father a child.
I like how this issue is always 1-sided. It's a woman's choice if she wants to have an abortion, but the guy doesn't have a choice to not support the child if the woman wants to have it but he doesn't.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
The number of responses here along the lines of "women always trick men into marriage by getting pregnant" or "birth control is a woman's responsibility" make me sad for my gender. I can't be the only man on Slashdot who 1) respects women (my wife and I both manage our portions of birth control together - I would never suggest that's HER job and not for me to be bothered with), 2) sees fatherhood as a positive outcome - not something that is only entered into via trickery, and 3) would like to see new birth control methods available on the market (whether or not this one would work for my wife and I aside, the more options the better). Can I?
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You should have something to say when you have to deal with 18 years of financial responsibility wile having no/little interaction with an actual child.
I didn't realize straw men could father children. Thank you for enlightening us.
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Why? It takes two to tango.
Because the only satisfactorily effective means of birth control are all in the hands of women, from the pill through the morning after pill to abortion. Additionally, as women would have us believe, pregnancy doesn't affect men nearly as much as it affects women. It seems only natural that women should take responsibility for that then. It's a shame that the responsibility seems to end when someone has to pay for the result.
Male contraceptives will cause a lot of women to be childless, women who would now find a sucker and "forget" the pill. You see, birth control isn't just a burden, it's also a form of control that isn't implied by its name, one that men don't currently have.
If the sperm is destroyed, is there anything left that contains DNA in the semen?
If not that this could be a big boon to rapists who no longer have to worry about leaving their DNA behind.
I guess you'll just have to suck it up then. ;-(
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Relying on what the other party says isn't nearly as effective when talking about disease transmission, and kind of silly when it comes to preventing pregnancies.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Well guess what? Maybe you should have taken a little bit of responsibility by using a condom?
That does not address the original issue. Would you find it acceptable for someone to say "Maybe you should have taken a little responsibility and not spread your legs" to a woman? If not, why is it o.k. to say that to the guy?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Vasectomies have potentially serious side effects, both in the short term, and in the long term (hormone issues), plus as others have pointed out they're more or less permanent (reversals are expensive and nowhere near 100% successful) .
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Because the only satisfactorily effective means of birth control are all in the hands of women, from the pill through the morning after pill to abortion
Women are also in control of the global condom supply, apparently.
How does something so completely wrong get modded so highly?
That's retarded. People have unprotected sex because it's better. Way better. Even, I would say *especially* people in long-term, monogamous, trusting relationships, who still happen to not want kids at the moment.
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"Always"? Which comments would those be? In any case, some men are tricked into being fathers, or think they are fathers. The chances of that happening are small, but the consequences (the next 20 years of your life) are large.
How about respecting people?
Women have a plethora of BC options open to them - various IUD's, the pill, diaphragms. None of which (well, occasionally diaphragms) interfere with her pleasure during sex. Condoms do interfere for men, and most American men are already missing half their nerves to begin with, when their genitals were cut without their consent as infants.